Deleted Tasks - How do you find the ones with attachments

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Deleted Tasks - How do you find the ones with attachments

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Hi guys, you have a fantastic product and excellent customer service!

I'm using Tasks very heavily including frequent file attachments to individual tasks. The problem is that when the task is deleted, it's impossible to have maintenance done by going over them and seeing which one has an attachment and how big it is - something available in Outlook for instance. As a result, the size of my epim file continues growing now into hundreds of megabytes and this is really bothering me.

Did I overlook this functionality in ePIM by any chance?

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Re: Deleted Tasks - How do you find the ones with attachments

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Hello,

thank you for the praise. We are glad to hear that our product really helps you. If I get it right, what you want is to be able to go to "Trash" module and see if any of the Tasks have attachments. This is not possible currently. Trash module is designed to give a very simple overview of deleted items.
Generally, I would not worry about size of database, as EPIM database is designed to handle gigabytes of data and until you reach say 5GB it should not be any potential issue. The only downside that may be is that with larger databases on slower drives EPIM may become slower, but that's a gradual process, not a sudden one.
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Re: Deleted Tasks - How do you find the ones with attachments

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Thanks Max, the problem is my regular backup routines which add up space requirements pretty considerably.

Will you be able at least add an 'attachment' flag I can view in Tasks Trash? This should be a reasonable extension since you already have it in regular Tasks?

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Thank you. We will consider it for the next batch of improvements when we overhaul "Trash" module.
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Re: Deleted Tasks - How do you find the ones with attachments

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Hi guys, just a quick follow up on this earlier request - I was wondering if this is going to be a feature any time soon?

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Re: Deleted Tasks - How do you find the ones with attachments

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Hello, was just wondering if the attachments feature discussed above made it to one of the current version?
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Re: Deleted Tasks - How do you find the ones with attachments

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Hello,

there has not been many requests for this, as you can see, but we still consider the feature for implementation.
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